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White Noise

By Don DeLillo
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White Noise by Don DeLillo is a haunting modern classic that explores the pervasive influence of mass culture and technology on contemporary life. The story follows Jack Gladney, a professor specialising in Hitler Studies, and his wife Babette as they navigate the complexities of family life amidst the distractions and anxieties of consumerism and media noise. Their precarious existence takes a dramatic turn when a toxic chemical cloud, resulting from an industrial accident, threatens their community, symbolising the ominous 'white noise' that encroaches upon their lives.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This novel is ideal for readers interested in thought-provoking literary fiction that critiques modern society and technology’s impact on human experience. It will appeal to fans of intellectual and culturally reflective narratives.

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Chairman of the department of Hitler studies at a Midwestern college, Jack Gladney is accidently exposed to a cloud of noxious chemicals, part of a world of the future that is doomed because of misused technology, artifical products and foods, and overpopulation.

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • An “eerie, brilliant, and touching” (The New York Times) modern classic about mass culture and the numbing effects of technology.

“Tremendously funny . . . A stunning performance from one of our most intelligent novelists.” —The New Republic

The inspiration for the award-winning major motion picture starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig

White Noise follows Jack Gladney, who teaches Hitler Studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America. His colleagues include New York expatriates eager to immerse themselves in “American magic and dread.” Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, are bound by their love, fear of death, and their four ultramodern offspring. Together, they navigate the usual rocky passages of family life against the background babble of brand-name consumerism.

Then a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives—an “airborne toxic event” unleashed by an industrial accident. This menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the “white noise” engulfing the Gladney family. It consists of radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings—pulsing with life, yet suggesting something ominous.

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ISBN: 9780140077025

Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 January 1986

Country: United States

Imprint: Penguin USA

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 227g

Pages: 336

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About the Author

Don DeLillo has written seventeen novels, including White Noise, which won the National Book Award. It was followed by Libra, his bestselling novel about the assassination of President Kennedy; Mao II, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and the bestselling Underworld, which in 2000 won the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the most distinguished work of fiction published in the prior five years. In 1999, DeLillo was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, given to a writer whose work expresses the theme of freedom of the individual in society. His other books include the novels Cosmopolis, Falling Man, and Point Omega and the story collection The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories. He has also written occasional essays and three stage plays. In 2010 DeLillo became the third author to receive the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. He was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2013.

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